Anna Rose Willoughby
I study disease ecology, interwoven with conservation biology, data science, and evolutionary anthropology.
At EcoHealth Alliance I worked with an interdisciplinary team on the USAID-funded PREDICT project to enable global surveillance of emerging viruses. I helped build a mammal-virus database and explored viral sharing between bat species.
My love for scientific research began on several courses taught by the Organization for Tropical Studies. These intensive field courses immersed me the scientific method, and made me appreciate the conservation land-use planning.
I use data from literature and the field to answer questions about pathogen presence and transmission. In particular, I am interested in identifying gaps in the scientfic literature to prioritize future studies. This requires a comparative approach, that relies on open data and compiled databases. I work primarily in R and on github.
During my undergraduate studies, my studies centered on primate social behavior and evolution. I completed a thesis on the interplay of reproduction, activity, and infection burden in wild chacma baboons. With a vertical team of researchers funded by Bass Connections, I studied the transition of infectious to chronic diseases in a geographically and genetically distinct population in Madagascar.
map of places, echo = FALSE
places <- read.csv(file = "website_locations.csv")
library(maps)
library(rbokeh)
plot <- suppressWarnings(figure(width = 800, height = 450, padding_factor = 0) %>%
ly_map("world", col = "gray") %>%
ly_points(Longitude, Latitude, data = places, size = 5,
color = Type,
hover = c(Name, Date)))
plot## Warning in structure(x, class = unique(c("AsIs", oldClass(x)))): Calling 'structure(NULL, *)' is deprecated, as NULL cannot have attributes.
## Consider 'structure(list(), *)' instead.
## Warning in structure(x, class = unique(c("AsIs", oldClass(x)))): Calling 'structure(NULL, *)' is deprecated, as NULL cannot have attributes.
## Consider 'structure(list(), *)' instead.
## Warning in structure(x, class = unique(c("AsIs", oldClass(x)))): Calling 'structure(NULL, *)' is deprecated, as NULL cannot have attributes.
## Consider 'structure(list(), *)' instead.Anna Willoughby 140 E. Green St. University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-2202 email: anna.willoughby @ uga.edu
Note that the echo = FALSE parameter was added to the code chunk to prevent printing of the R code that generated the plot.